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1386, 18th October: The oldest university in Germany, Heidelberg University was founded.
1867, 18th October: The United States took possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million.
1879, 18th October: The Theosophical Society was established.
1906, 18th October: Depressed Class Mission established by Maharshi Vitthal Ramji Shinde.
1922, 18th October: Establishment of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
1954, 18th October: Texas Instruments announced the first transistor radio.
1963, 18th October: Lord Home was elected as the next Prime Minister of the UK after an uproar for leadership in the Conservative Party.
1967, 18th October: Soviet Russia’s Venera-4 spacecraft lands on Venus.
1977, 18th October: 2060 – Chiron, the farthest asteroid in space, was discovered.
1989, 18th October: Communist leader Eric Honecker of East Germany was removed from his post.
2002, 18th October: Sachin Tendulkar became the first cricketer to score 20,000 runs in Tests and ODIs.
2007, 18th October: Karachi Bombing: A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto killed 139 and injured 450 more. Bhutto herself was uninjured.
18 October in Indian History – Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on October 18
1804: King Mongkut Ram (IV) of Thailand.
1861: Bharatcharya Chintamanrao Vaidya, an Indian judge, and writer.
1925: Ibrahim Alkazi, Indian theatre director, and drama teacher, and director of the National School of Drama (NSD).
1925: Ramiz Alia, the first president of Albania.
1944: Deepak Parekh, Chairman of India’s Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC).
1950: Om Puri, Indian actor.
1956: Martina Navratilova, a lawn tennis player from Czechoslovakia.
1965: Zakir Naik, founder, and chairman of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF).
1977: Jyothika, Indian actress.
1974: Amish Tripathi, an Indian writer.
18 October in Indian History – Death Anniversaries of famous people on October 18
1871: Charles Babbage, English polymath, mechanical engineer, mathematician, father of the first mechanical computer.
1909: Lal Mohan Ghosh, sixteenth President of the Indian National Congress and eminent Bengali barrister.
1931: Thomas Alva Edison, American researcher, and entrepreneur.
1976: Vishwanath Satyanarayana, Indian poet, and writer.
1983: Vijay Manjrekar, Indian cricketer.
2004: Veerappan, Indian sandalwood smuggler.